Launched landfills are dangerous for nature and attract criminals Initially, I was going to make a report about a huge garbage dump near the village of Gribovichi near the city of Lviv in the west of Ukraine. However, I just could not get there. This is one of the largest landfills in Europe, it is […]
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Year: 2017
Innovative Technologies for Recycling Polymers
The Gneuss GPU technology unit was released a few years ago and has already proven itself in the recycling of bulk PET wastes such as bottle flakes and industrial wastes of fibers and films. It consists of an extruder with a multi-rotational (MRS) system with high degassing and cleaning processes, an effective rotary melt filtration […]
Styrene stocks in East China continue to decline for the second week in a row
Styrene-monomer stocks in the eastern region of China are already declining for the second consecutive week due to a decrease in cargo volumes in ports, ICIS reported citing official data received on Wednesday. The total stock of material fell to 58.3 thousand tons, which is 14.4 thousand tons less than last week. The volume of […]
Spot prices of PP in Europe are declining
Spot prices of polypropylene (PP) in Europe fell last week, ICIS reports citing sources in the market. At the same time, manufacturers do not express concern about the growth of naphtha prices. The prices fell on some types of PPs, subject to large volumes of purchases, but overall the overall price trend for PP prices […]
The prices of blown HDPE in Europe remain in a wide range
The spot prices of low-pressure polyethylene (HDPE) in Europe remain in a wide range, the difference in price reached EUR100 and higher, reaching EUR1-100-1,200 per tonne, ICIS reports citing market participants. So, the prices of imported blown HDPE remained at a level sometimes lower than EUR1,100 per tonne, FD, whereas at the upper end of […]
Petkim lowered prices of LDPE in Turkey by USD20 per tonne
Turkish polymer producer Petkim, whose controlling shareholder is Azerbaijan’s SOCAR, lowered the October prices of high-pressure polyethylene (LDP) by USD20 per tonne, ICIS source in the company said. According to him, slowing demand and competitive import prices have become the main reason for the price drop. Activity in the Turkish market slowed in the middle […]
Russia asked Turkey to reduce duties on polymers
Russia asked Turkey to consider the possibility of reducing import customs duties on chemical products, including polyethylene and polypropylene, TASS reported citing Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky. “On plastics, polyethylene, propylene,” he said, answering the question, will Russia ask Turkey to reduce duties on chemical products. Turkey is one of the main foreign economic partners […]
“Garbage everywhere”: users in shock from the mountains of debris accumulated in the Carpathians
Users are shocked by the pictures published by Roman Mihailuk on the Carpathians page on Facebook. Users note that they are in shock from what they saw and can not imagine that people could leave as much rubbish behind them, informs replyua.net. “In most cases this is done by the local population, the aborigines, they […]
Prices of PP in Europe are falling
Spot prices of polypropylene (PP) in Europe fell last week, ICIS reports citing sources in the market. At the same time, manufacturers do not express concern about the growth of naphtha prices. The prices fell on some types of PPs, subject to large volumes of purchases, but overall the overall price trend for PP prices […]
Who is not really ready to recycle: Ukraine or the Ministry of Natural Resources?
The press service of the Ministry of Ecology continues to state obvious problems, while saying that Ukraine is not ready for separate collection of garbage. The department notes that in the country at the moment there are no opportunities for introducing sorting of solid household waste. Semerak says that in Ukraine there are no containers […]